The rent is due soon and N.J. tenants slammed by coronavirus crisis are scared

2020-03-27

A month ago, Daisy Rodriguez had few worries.The 40-year-old Dover woman spent her days babbling with her 2-year-old daughter and cooking with her mom in the home they comfortably moved to a year ago. She had just gotten word of her tax return, and was calculating her yearly budget with it in her savings.But now, her biggest worry is approaching: April 1.Her rent is due just a few days after her life — and just about everybody else’s — has been turned upside down as the coronavirusoutbreak ravages the world. She doesn’t know if she can make the $1,500 payment.The local temp agency where she wa…